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NoChinDeluxe
Changing the location of saveStrings()
May 27th, 2009, 4:00pm  
I'm trying to use saveStrings() to save a text file to a location other than the sketch folder. I've been using some of the info on this alpha thread, but when I tried using st33d's code, I got an error message stating that Access was Denied to the root drive.

Any way around this
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PhiLho 
Re: Changing the location of saveStrings()
Reply #1 - May 28th, 2009, 2:25am  
We would need more information. What system? What path do you use?
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NoChinDeluxe
Re: Changing the location of saveStrings()
Reply #2 - May 28th, 2009, 7:13am  
I'm on a Windows Vista 64-bit machine, and I'm basically wanting to have one sketch saving text files into another sketch's data folder. So the path I'm saving to is C:\Users\Me\Documents\Processing\destination_sketch\data\ . But, I should add that even when I try to save to the root at C:\ I still get denied access.

I'm guessing Vista has something to do with the security. But perhaps there is a way to authorize through the sketch?
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PhiLho 
Re: Changing the location of saveStrings()
Reply #3 - May 28th, 2009, 8:44am  
Somehow, I might understand that Vista forbids to write to root level. Not sure why, but as you said it is so picky on security...
Now, I don't understand why it forbids to write to your own Documents folder.
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NoChinDeluxe
Re: Changing the location of saveStrings()
Reply #4 - May 28th, 2009, 10:58am  
OK a little update. I just tried this whole thing on my XP system, and it worked great. I had one sketch saveStrings() into another sketch's data folder. But, it would still be super helpful if I could do this on Vista as well, so if anyone has any clue toward that dilemma, it would be greatly appreciated.
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